Tag Archives: flight photography
Harrier Hunting
This week’s photo, taken October 2, 2023 at the marsh in Edmonds, WA, features a NORTHERN HARRIER performing its aerial dance above the marsh. Northern Harriers utilize unique flying styles when hunting. They fly low over fields or marshes, tilting … Continue reading
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Tagged bird photography, bird-watching, birds, flight photography, harriers, nature, Northern Harrier, outdoors, Washington
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Red-Shafted
This week’s photo, taken November 22, 2023 at Yost Park in Edmonds, WA, features a NORTHERN FLICKER, the most common woodpecker in the Seattle area. This photo highlights the red feather shafts of the Northern Flicker of western North America; … Continue reading
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Tagged bird photography, bird-watching, birds, flight photography, nature, Northern Flicker, outdoors, Washington, woodpeckers
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Name Changes Are Coming
This week’s photo, taken September 2, 2023 from the picnic area near the Sunrise parking lot in Mount Rainier National Park, features a LEWIS’S WOODPECKER. You may have heard that the American Ornithological Society (AOS) plans to change the names … Continue reading
On a Wing and a Prayer
This week’s photo, taken June 27, 2023 at Sun Mountain Lodge near Winthrop, WA, features a male BREWER’S BLACKBIRD, hoping to arrive at its destination before the outer section of its wing falls off. Actually, this blackbird is probably in … Continue reading
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Tagged bird photography, bird-watching, birds, blackbirds, Brewer's Blackbird, flight photography, humor, molting, nature, outdoors, Washington
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Eyes Level
This week’s photo, taken June 19, 2023 at the marsh in Edmonds, WA, features a VAUX’S SWIFT. During the past few months, plentiful numbers of swallows have been performing flight maneuvers over the marsh as they nab flying insects on … Continue reading
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Tagged bird photography, bird-watching, flight photography, nature, outdoors, swallows, swifts, Vaux's Swift, Washington
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Aerial Action
This week’s photo, taken August 4, 2021 at Ronald Bog Park in Shoreline, WA, features two MERLINS in an aerial encounter. Are these two notoriously aggressive falcons doing battle in the air, or are they merely practicing their flying skills … Continue reading
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Tagged bird behavior, bird photography, birds, birdwatching, falcon, flight photography, humor in nature, Merlin, nature, Pacific Northwest, raptors
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Aerobic Birding
This week’s photo, taken June 2, 2017 at Richmond Beach Park in Shoreline, WA, features a VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW. If you’ve ever stood on a bluff attempting to photograph a fast-moving swallow, while the tiny jet-shaped bird zips by, swooping and … Continue reading
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Tagged bird photography, birding, camera, flight photography, humor, nature, North America, outdoors, photography, spring, swallows, Violet-Green Swallow, Washington
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My Final Answer
This week’s photo, taken March 7, 2015 from the Edmonds Pier in Edmonds, WA, features a female COMMON GOLDENEYE in flight. Common and Barrow’s Goldeneyes, in particular the females, are tough to tell apart, especially when the birds zoom by … Continue reading
Most Joyful Bird
This week’s photo, taken January 28, 2015 near Stanwood, WA, features a SHORT-EARED OWL checking me out as it flies by, as if to say: “What’s Up?” The SHORT-EARED OWL, often active during daylight hours, gets my vote as the … Continue reading
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Tagged bird photography, bird-watching, birding, flight photography, nature, outdoors, owls, Short-eared Owl, Stanwood, Washington
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